Queenstown policeman Travis Hughes, who died in a plane crash in 2005, was remembered at a Police Remembrance Day service in Queenstown yesterday.
Detective Hughes and his pilot Chris Scott, of Whakatane, died when their single-engine Cessna crashed in the Gibbston valley while on a cannabis-spotting flight on January 29, 2005.
Since 1886, 29 police and traffic officers have been slain while on duty and another 38, including Det Hughes, died while on duty.
Among the names read out were Sergeant Stewart Guthrie, who was killed in the 1990 Aramoana massacre, Senior Constable Peter Umbers, who was killed with his own baton in Ranfurly in 1990, and typist/receptionist Pamela Maree Brien, who died in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
Otago Lakes Central Inspector Olaf Jensen said each of the officers killed was a reminder of the dangers faced by police while serving the public.
''When a person becomes a police officer, they commit to putting the security and welfare of others before themselves.
''All of our colleagues have died in pursuit of a safer New Zealand.''
Senior Constable Julian Cahill said a golf tournament was held last Friday in Det Hughes' honour.
Cromwell's Margaret Glen laid two poppies by the Queenstown police station flagpole to remember her husband the Rev Dr Frank Glen, a police chaplain from 1983 to 1997 who died in February.
The service was conducted by retired senior police chaplain the Rev Winton Davies, of Wanaka.
A West Coast-Tasman police contingent paid tribute to fallen New Zealand police officers in a poignant service at Kowhitirangi, south of Hokitika, yesterday at the memorial site for the seven murder victims of Stanley Graham.
The 1941 shooting tragedy, which left four police officers and three civilians dead, remains the worst single event in New Zealand police history.
Members of the community and Hokitika RSA also attended.
